Congratulations

Congratulations to Mary Stewart and Claire Cunningham (Deer Park), who finished 4th handicap
in the Commonwealth Spoon Finals at Powfoot on 13th September.

County Finals

Congratulations to the Midlothian team on another great year, reaching the County Finals once again, and finishing as very credible runners up.  The team played some fantastic golf over the three days and put up a gutsy defence of our title.  But it didn't quite work out on the last day and we were beaten by a young, enthusiastic Angus team who played some amazing golf to be Sottish County Champions after a 104 year wait!  .

We have a fantastic team and girls, we are all proud of you . You have established yourselves as "the team to beat" and although we didn't quite get there this year - we will be back!

A huge thank you to VC Sheila and Secretary Hilary for all their hard work and support at Montrose and to our fantastic bunch of caddies and supporters - the best in the country!

The story in pictures .....

Silver Hole & Hole

Congratulations to Liz Moody (Prestonfield) who won the silver division hole & hole competition, beating Louise Campbell (Murrayfield) in the final.

5 a sides Division 2

Congratulations to this years Division 2 champions Lothianburn who will be promoted to division 1 alongside runners up Harburn.

Midlothian are runners- up

Well it wasn't to be today. After halving the foursomess in the morning in the deciding match against Angus, things did not go our way in the afternoon singles. We were beaten by a fantastic young Angus team who played the most amazing golf this afternoon and thoroughly deserved their win, the first in 104 years! But our team were fantastic and gave their all. We were runners up in 2009 and 2010, winners in 2011 and runners up again in 2012 - quite an achievement. Congratulations to Angus and well done Midlothian on another great performance.

County Finals day 2 - still on track

A gutsy performance, in true Midlothian style today, has set up a final day decider with Angus.  We got off to a solid start this morning with Jane Turner and Hannah Scott wining their foursomes against Donna Jackson and Liz Stewart 4&3 and Claire Hargan and Gabrielle Macdonald beating Alyson McKechin and Gillian Kyle 2&1. Karen Marshall and Wendy Nicholson eventually succumed to the strong pairing of Megan Briggs and Linsey Stevenson 3&2.

A very quick afternoon turnaround, with players and caddies quickly downing soup and sandwiches in 10 mintes flat (due to the mens medal that had been in front!!) and off we went for a very cold and somewhat tense afternoon. Jane Turner, out first, was in a birdie blitz mood, beating Alyson McKechin 4&3. Kate McIntosh had a really tough draw coming up against an in-form Megan Briggs (loosing 6&5) and the others seemed very much in control early on.

But as the wind got up and the temperature chilled, Renfrewshire fought back.  However when things get tough, so do Midlothian, and great performances for halves by Louise Fraser and Claire Hargan with Linsey Stevenson and Carol Whyte, a fantastic comeback by Hannah Scott winning 17&18 to win her game with Donna Jackson and a brilliant anchor role by in-form Gabrielle Macdonald, winning 3&2, brought us home as 6-3 winners. Good luck tomorrow girls - we can do it!

Midlothian start well

Midlothian got off to a good start in defence of our Scottish County title in Montrose today.  We beat Dumfriesshire 7.5-1.5, winning the morning foursomes 3-0 and the singles 4.5 - 1.5.  Michaela (above) was ready for anything - sunshine and rain - and we got both! 

 Great start in the foursomes this morning winning all three matches.

Claire Hargan & Gabrielle Macdonald beat Diane McDonald & Lindsey Kirkwood 5 & 3







Karen Marshall & Wendy Nicholson beat Jordana Graham & Emma Greenlees 3 & 2







Jane Turner & Hannah Scott beat Rachel Walker & Katie McCracken 6 & 5






The girls kept the momentum going in the afternoon winning 4.5 points out of the possible 6.

Jane Turner beat Diane McDonald 5 & 3
Gabrielle Macdonald beat Katie Mccracken 6 & 5
Kate McIntosh beat Lindsey Kirkwood 3 & 2
Louise Fraser beat Emma Greenlees 3 & 2
Wendy Nicholson lost to Jordana Graham 2 & 1
Karen Marshall halved with Rachel Walker

Fantastic start girls.  In the other match, Angus beat Renfrewshire 5-4.